Delay...



I had a good day at the Cape Town waterfront - lots of tourists.  This evening, I saw the rest of our team: Chris McKay, Valery Galchenko, and Vladimir Akimov.  I've known Chris for years, but was pleased to finally meet Valery and Vladimir.  We had a pleasant dinner after a stressful day for the others.  Chris just flew in from California today, so he is very jet lagged.  Valery and Vladimir flew in from Moscow yesterday, but their bags (including all their science gear) didn't make it with them.  They spent most of the day tracking down their bags, successfully.  Thus, the day ended well.

Valery and Vladimir talked with the ALCI folks, and our departure for Antarctica is likely to be delayed by a day or two.  We'll meet at 11 tomorrow morning at the ALCI offices to get the latest updates.  It looks like I need to plan an afternoon adventure.

I have a software problem with my computer, and I can no longer download images from any of my SC cards with my computer's internal card reader, either camera, or my external card reader.  However, if I reboot my computer off a Carbon Copy Clone that I made last week on an external drive, I can read them no problem.  The fact that I can't read them at all through any method booting off my internal drive and can read them no problem booting off a clone made before this problem arose suggests a software rather than a hardware issue.  Any ideas?  What this means for readers of my blog:  I won't put in photos every time, but I might add them later in batches.  None tonight...

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